Phew, that's a relief.

[yellowbelly]

Looking at today's post and I thought the December Sheep Return had just got a lot more complicated ...........

I've got all the info - but it's been a catchy harvest and drilling time and my paperwork has slipped behind a bit.....

Anyhow, on reading the covering letter, turns out there's no need to panic - it's just another Sheep Breed Survey....

The letter goes to great lengths to say that respondents will not identifiable (phone number and email addresses are optional) but it says entering your postcode is important - so I guess they know who you are anyway

I'll pop it on the pile

 

[Al R]

Well the return address is the Wool board, so I thought it would be an invoice instead of payment for almost 3,000kg of wool.
Low and behold that survey was inside ( did you also get the welsh papers too? )
Filled it in as accurately as I could, included phone number and email address. Additional comments was filled in too. Sealed back up and postman will take tomorrow.

Unless they do a cash incentive I can’t see there being many replies to it? I was just truly motherfu<king bored and didn’t want to talk to the wife for 10 minutes

 

[neilo]

You will likely all get another copy from HCC/AHDB/SQL as well, and I received one a few days from Breed Society.

If nobody fills it in then there won’t be any evidence for mules being ‘supreme’ once again, whether Suffolk’s have continued their fall from grace, whether AberEasyLogieWotsits have taken over the world as much as their marketing claims and whether lamb numbers are likely to be up so much next year that we’re all fooked anyway.

It all makes for an interesting snapshot of where our industry is right now, and only gets asked every 8 years or so.

 

[yellowbelly]

didn’t want to talk to the wife for 10 minutes

Crikey, it'd take me longer than that to find where I put my diary

 

[AftonShepherd]

You're asking now it's nearly 40 years ago. Combine was a 1976 MF525 12' cut with an RDS loss monitor.

Just been to look in the office - it was spring barley It was for a local dairy farm and would have been the first cereal after a grass ley. According to the records that combine cut 319 acres of spring barley and winter wheat that year (1981).

I've got all the info - but it's been a catchy harvest and drilling time and my paperwork has slipped behind a bit.....

You can find things when it suits you

 

[yellowbelly]

You can find things when it suits you

It's a dementia kinda thing - I can remember what I did 40 years ago but can't remember how many ewes are in the 40 acre

 

[AftonShepherd]

It's a dementia kinda thing - I can remember what I did 40 years ago but can't remember how many ewes are in the 40 acre

None. There were 167 store lambs but I moved them on Sunday. Actually, how do you know that I've got a field called the 40 acre?

 

[yellowbelly]

how do you know that I've got a field called.the 40 acre?

Cammy told me

 

[Agrivator]

But the Wool Board receieves most of the wool produced in the UK (or at least in GB), they grade it by breed and hogg wool verus older wool, so they can deduce from that the rough numbers of each type.

 

[yellowbelly]

But the Wool Board receieves most of the wool produced in the UK (or at least in GB), they grade it by breed and hogg wool verus older wool, so they can deduce from that the rough numbers of each type.

We fill in a December return every year, the AHDB make predictions about how many hoggs are left after Christmas - they're never anywhere near right .................


...............what do those computer guys say

...........something about "Garbage in, garbage out"

 

[clod hopper]

Looking at today's post and I thought the December Sheep Return had just got a lot more complicated ...........

I've got all the info - but it's been a catchy harvest and drilling time and my paperwork has slipped behind a bit.....

Anyhow, on reading the covering letter, turns out there's no need to panic - it's just another Sheep Breed Survey....

The letter goes to great lengths to say that respondents will not identifiable (phone number and email addresses are optional) but it says entering your postcode is important - so I guess they know who you are anyway

I'll pop it on the pile

Bloody 'ell! Looks like you have a bad case of 'Spin Snot' in there!

 

[spin cycle]

Bloody 'ell! Looks like you have a bad case of 'Spin Snot' in there!

how rude ...but true

 

[500john]

They can't pay for the wool, but as usual, they've money to waste on sending out crap! Unbelievable.

 

[neilo]

They can't pay for the wool, but as usual, they've money to waste on sending out crap! Unbelievable.

They are just sending an AHDB/HCC/QMS survey out to the producers on their mailing list. The return address on the free post envelope is the AHDB office in Stoneleigh. AHDB will be doing the expensive data inputting & number crunching, and BWMB will have access to the results in order to keep their grading system relevant and help with forward planning.
That will help them further improve the efficiency of their operation, all for the cost of sending out the post for someone else. Looks like good business to me.

 

[500john]

They are just sending an AHDB/HCC/QMS survey out to the producers on their mailing list. The return address on the free post envelope is the AHDB office in Stoneleigh. AHDB will be doing the expensive data inputting & number crunching, and BWMB will have access to the results in order to keep their grading system relevant and help with forward planning.
That will help them further improve the efficiency of their operation, all for the cost of sending out the post for someone else. Looks like good business to me.

BWMB have no idea what good buisness is!

 

[AftonShepherd]

BWMB is sheep farming's equivalent of Marmite!

 

[Henarar]

BWMB is sheep farming's equivalent of Marmite!

Its a job to get the last bit out the jar ?

 

[neilo]

BWMB is sheep farming's equivalent of Marmite!

Many don’t understand what it is?

 

[Al R]

They are just sending an AHDB/HCC/QMS survey out to the producers on their mailing list. The return address on the free post envelope is the AHDB office in Stoneleigh. AHDB will be doing the expensive data inputting & number crunching, and BWMB will have access to the results in order to keep their grading system relevant and help with forward planning.
That will help them further improve the efficiency of their operation, all for the cost of sending out the post for someone else. Looks like good business to me.

I saw this and thought it was a bill from the wool board for supplying wool

 

[neilo]

I saw this and thought it was a bill from the wool board for supplying wool

They haven’t sold it yet. They won’t know how big a bill to send you until next year.